US District Court Decision in AI's Favor Worries Open-Source Developers
US District Court Decision in AI’s Favor Worries Open-Source Developers By: Steven J. A federal appeals court handed GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI an important win in the first major appellate ruling over how AI coding tools can use open-source code.As we all know, all the AI code-generating programs learned their lessons largely from open-source code. So a group of anonymous open-source plaintiffs argued that GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex were built using code from public GitHub repositories, including open-source licensed code.
- ▪US District Court Decision in AI’s Favor Worries Open-Source Developers By: Steven J.
- ▪A federal appeals court handed GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI an important win in the first major appellate ruling over how AI coding tools can use open-source code.As we all know, all the AI code-generating programs learned their lessons la
- ▪So a group of anonymous open-source plaintiffs argued that GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex were built using code from public GitHub repositories, including open-source licensed code.
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| Publication time | Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:54:53 +0000 |
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US District Court Decision in AI’s Favor Worries Open-Source Developers By: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on September 18, 2026 TL;DR — Key Takeaways– The Ninth Circuit ruled that AI-generated code lacking copyright management information does not automatically violate Section 1202 of the DMCA. – The decision gives GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI a significant legal win, but it does not broadly resolve whether training AI models on open-source code infringes copyright. – The court distinguished between generating a new work without attribution and removing copyright information from an existing work.
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